Inverted faces are (eventually) processed holistically

Vision Research

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-342

  Richler, Jennifer J ^a   Mack, Michael L ^a   Palmeri, Thomas J ^a   Gauthier, Isabel ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Holistic processing; Inversion effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FACE; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651469292     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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